Research Article

Statistics and Analysis of the Relations between Rainstorm Floods and Earthquakes

Table 1

The list of “earthquake-flood relevancy” events under the “earth degassing effect.”

Number EarthquakesFloods

16 destructive earthquakes in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan provinces from 1568 to 1569Severe flood at the borders of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan provinces in 1570

2Earthquakes higher than Ms7 in the mountainous areas in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on April 11, 1870Severe flood along the Yangtze River in 1870

3One earthquake higher than Ms7 and two earthquakes higher than Ms6 at the border of Guangdong and Fujian provinces from 1918 to 1921 Landing of a super typhoon at the border of Guangdong and Fujian provinces in 1922

4An earthquake of Ms8.6 leading to 1,200 deaths in Mongolia on December 4, 1957Severe flood along the Yellow River in July 1958 (peak flowrate of 22,300 m3/s at Huayuankou on the 16th)

5Two earthquakes higher than Ms8 in Tibet in 1950 and 1951; two earthquakes of Ms7.5 in Tibet and Gansu in 1952 and 1954Severe floods along the Yangtze River, the Huai River and the Yellow River in 1954; severe flood on Songhua River in 1956

6An earthquake of Ms7.5 in Ulan Bator of Mongolia on January 5, 1967Severe flood along the Yellow River in August 1967 (peak flowrate of 21,000 m3/s at Longmen on the 11th)

7An earthquake of Ms7.1 in the southwest of Mongolia on July 4, 1974Severe flood in Zhumadian of Henan province on August 8, 1975

8Earthquakes of Ms7.3 and 7.4 in Longling of Yunnan on May 29, 1976
Earthquake of Ms7.8 in Tangshan of Hebei province on July 28, 1976, leading to 242,000 deaths
Earthquake of Ms7.2 in Songpan-Pingwu of Sichuan province on August 16 and August 23, 1976
Severe flood on the Yellow River in July and August 1977 (peak flowrate of 8,780 m3/s at Dongguan Bridge, YanAn on July 6, a millennial flood; peak flowrate of 14,500 m3/s at Longmen on July 20; peak flowrate of 10,800 m3/s at Huayuankou on August 7)

9Earthquake of Ms7.5 in the north of Mandalay Burma on January 5, 1991 Flood on Huai River in 1991

10Earthquake of Ms8.1 in the west of Kunlun Mountain, Qinghai province on November 14, 2001Flood in the middle reaches of the Yellow River from August to October 2003

11Earthquake of Ms9.3 in Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 Flood on Xijiang River on June 17, 2005

12Four earthquakes of Ms6–6.5 in Yunnan and Burma from May to June 2007 Super flood on Xijiang River in June 2008